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ZyXEL Selects TI VoIP for Next-Generation Access Devices, IP Phones

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced today that ZyXEL Communications Corp. (TSE:2391), the world’s largest residential gateway provider, has chosen TI’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products for its voice–enabled DSL access devices, VoIP gateways and IP phones. TI’s complete, integrated customer premises equipment (CPE) silicon and software solutions are optimized for solution density, and incorporate TI’s programmable digital signal processor (DSP)-based series of access communications processors and field-proven Telogy Software(TM) for VoIP. The first IP phones with TI’s chipset, V501D-T1 and V300, will be available at CeBIT 2007. Prior to that, ZyXEL will roll out its high-port density VoIP gateway, P2024.

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RONETIX Adds NAND FLASH Programming to PEEDI JTAG Emulator and Programmer

Posted by Ken Cheung in Equipment,Models, Simulations on Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Ronetix today announced the availability of the new firmware of its high speed, low cost JTAG Emulator and Flash Programmer for ARM7, ARM9 and XScale based micro controllers. The new firmware adds support of direct programming NAND FLASH memory connected to an ARM or an XSCALE MCU. This unique feature enables the easy use of NAND FLASH memory as a boot device. PEEDI supports 8 and 16 bit NAND chips up to 8Gbit. There is also a bad block management, which handles the bad blocks during programming and enables PEEDI to forcibly mark blocks as bad or healthy.

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Accent Opens New UK Sales Office in Cambridge

Posted by Ken Cheung in Other on Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Accent S.p.A., Europe’s leading provider of electronics design and realization services, has opened a UK sales office in Cambridge in the UK in order to bring the company closer to its customers from both a sales and design perspective in what is one of its most important and fastest growing markets.

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DVCon: Call for Paper, Panel and Tutorial Proposals

Posted by Ken Cheung in Events, Training on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The 2007 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon), sponsored by Accellera, is now accepting paper, panel and tutorial submissions. Proposals that reflect real experiences using hardware design and verification languages, advanced tools and methodologies are encouraged.

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Wells-Gardner Files Three New Patents for LCDs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation (Amex: WGA) announced that they have filed 3 new patents for LCDs.

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Micron Creates Industry’s Densest Server Memory Module

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Data retention, reliability and availability are major concerns for several types of enterprise institutions that process large amounts of data as part of their core business. Understanding these concerns, Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced the world’s densest server memory module, a 16-Gigabyte device that enables customers to access mission-critical data more quickly and efficiently.

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Himax Acquires Wisepal Technologies – Display Driver ICs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Himax Technologies, Inc. (“Himax” or “Company”) (Nasdaq: HIMX) today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a letter of intent (“Letter of Intent”) to acquire privately-held Wisepal Technologies, Inc. (“Wisepal”) by way of a share exchange at the exchange ratio of five (5) Wisepal shares for one (1) ordinary share of the Company and five (5) Wisepal Employee Stock Options (“ESOs”) for one (1) Restricted Share Unit (“RSU”) of the Company. Himax expects to issue 6,406,800 ordinary shares in exchange for 32,034,000 outstanding Wisepal shares and 480,200 RSUs in exchange for 2,401,000 outstanding Wisepal ESOs, resulting in a total share dilution of 3.44% based on 200,367,637 fully diluted outstanding shares of the Company as of June 30th, 2006.

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Fujitsu Creates Macros for ASIC Designs for 90nm and 110nm

Posted by Ken Cheung in IP Cores on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today expanded its portfolio of IP cores for networking, communications and storage system applications, introducing three new macros for custom ASIC designs.

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National Instruments Unveils NI SignalExpress Tektronix Edition

Posted by Ken Cheung in Test Solution on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

National Instruments today announced support for the newly released Tektronix TDS1000B and TDS2000B Series of digital storage oscilloscopes in NI SignalExpress Tektronix Edition, an interactive PC-based measurement software design and test engineers use to quickly acquire, analyze and document measurements on the benchtop without programming. With USB plug-and-play capability, SignalExpress Tektronix Edition makes it easy for engineers to connect to and control Tektronix instruments from their PCs.

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Altera Broadcasts Innovation with Programmable Solutions

Posted by Ken Cheung in FPGAs on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) will showcase its portfolio of industry-leading programmable logic solutions for the digital broadcast industry at the upcoming International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2006) event in Amsterdam. Visitors to Altera’s booth will see demonstrations of programmable logic-based solutions that enable designers of broadcast applications to rapidly go to market and deliver high-quality broadcast products to their customers. These demonstrations include:

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